DES MOINES, Iowa -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is proposing a $3 billion, five-year program to add 100,000 nurses to a profession hard-hit by overworked employees choosing to retire and fewer entering the health care field.
"Our nation is facing a crisis as more nurses leave the profession every day, fewer students train to replace them and those who remain labor under crushing workloads," the North Carolina senator said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday in Iowa.
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Under Edwards' plan, the government would help pay tuition and fees for 50,000 new nursing students and would create grants aimed at luring veteran nurses back. The program also calls for eliminating mandatory overtime, a chronic complaint of overworked nurses, and creation of high school programs touting the benefits of the profession.
The candidate did not provide details on how he would finance the plan.
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